Books on social media, or more general software issues

2019's LikeWar, by PW Singer and Emerson T. Brooking:

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/likewar-p-w-singeremerson-t-brooking?vari...

2015's Future Crimes, by Marc Goodman:

https://knopfdoubleday.com/futurecrimes/

2012's The Filter Bubble, by Eli Pariser:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/309214/the-filter-bubble-by-eli-pariser...

2008's Zero Day Threat by Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz.

>1 MaureenRoy:
I came to The Filter Bubble via Nick Harkaway's The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World.

Having bought Future Crimes I skimmed it and gave it to one of my sons for whom it is very relevant.

A book I have found fascinating and pertinent to this thread is Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford, published in 2015.

This is not a book, but rather a US Supreme Court case on restrictive state laws in Texas and Florida that could transform the nature of free speech on all social media:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/26/tech/supreme-court-social-media/index.html

So it's something to take careful notice of, Tim and everyone.

Eye-opening analysis of smartphone location tracking as of 2024:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/phone-tracking-tool-lets-...

>4 MaureenRoy: Shorter than a book, and probably old news for US members:

Location tracking, meet abortion bans – authoritarians have too much power (Guardian, 2024-10-26).

Applications don't stop at parents tracking children via smartphone.